jamcnewman wrote: »

First pass day of March.

Tracked ✅
Calories ❌ over
Exercise ❌

Caroline_slowandsteady wrote: »

Fri March 18
Another pass day in my way above pass days learning month
Exercise: 40 minute walk in beautiful, suddenly spring weather
Tracking: Tracked EVERYthing
Calories: Only a little over
But no weight loss
I am suspecting it's the irish soda bread estimate that is wrong and putting me over. Today will be the last day I eat it. It's so good. My wife is part Irish and I am Jewish so my food log is all Irish soda bread and hamentashen these past few days - but it is required!

I can't quite bring myself to do the "I am" phrase, though it would probably be good for me.
Goals - now that is my language
Last week I tracked my time in 15 minute increments (look up Laura Vanderakam if that sounds interesting to you). Today I am going to analyze how I spent my time and think about what my optimal weekly schedule would look like. I think it may be true that I can't really fit in my goal of 30 minute walk, 15 minute MommaStrong, 15 minute stretching every day. Plus all the time here on MFP. It's a fair bit of time devoted to this in my otherwise busy life but it does really help. I may come up with a schedule that has me doing each thing maybe 4 days a a week and call that enough - that may make me feel more successful than continually trying to do all the things and failing.

And calorie-wise I think the obvious next step in my "learning month" is to try to consistently be under my calorie goal and see what happens. Tomorrow is the end of my daughter's birthday week and probably time to get rid of the Irish soda bread and hamentashen too, so maybe that's the goal for Monday - to get really strict.